conferences

In It's Elementary #24 we talked with Dean Shareski and Wesley Fryer,
two of the conveners for the k12Online2008 Conference. Dean is a
Digital Learning Consultant with a school in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan,
Canada. Westley Fryer is the Director of the Olklahoma Heritage
Association. The K12Online2008 conference is totally online, including
both synchronous and asynchronous components. This year's
pre-conference keynote will be given by Heppell Next week. (week of
October 13th) The conferece contains four strands 1. Getting Started 2.
Prove it. 3. Kicking it Up A Notch 4. Leading the Change Within each
strand, there are many presentations that fit that theme. Several of
the presenters prepared teasers, or short advertisements. of their
presenations. These are available at http://k12onlineconference.org/?cat=27 More information can be found at http://k12onlineconference.org Join us for our next show on October 27th where we will discuss technology in the Early Childhood Classroom. To read Chat see attachment

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Please note that events, dates, titles, and locations may change;
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will be canceled at a later date. All the information below was obtained from
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­This was a special webcast from the National Writing Project's (NWP) ­Tech Matters`07 -- an annual summer institute sponsored by the Tech Liaisons Network of the NWP. In addition to several teachers who are working together in Chico, CA as part of Tech Matters, we were joined by Writing Project teachers Bill O'Neil (Trenton WP) and Bud Hunt (Colorado State University WP). Also two Writing Project teachers who were participants in Tech Maters`06 joined us, Donna Bragg, Penn State Lehigh Valley Writing Project and Lynne Culp, UCLA Writing Project. Thanks also to Susan Ettenheim who streamed for us and edited this podcast, Lee Baber who added more music to our lives, and Doug Symington who was there to remind us about his show EdTech Brainstorms, which on on Thursdays nights(Americas)/Friday (Asia,Oceania) 2amGMT.

Thanks to Jennifer, Cathy, Lee, Cheryl and Brad for joining me for a special "mountain" edition of EdTechBrainstorm. Notwithstanding some audio "issues" (again!) we had a great conversation about conferences, upcoming shows on the Worldbridges network, and discussed the possibility of a New Year's webcastathon. As always, watch this space for details.

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